MS. Digby 33
Summary Catalogue no.: 1634
Physical Description
Composite: six parts
History
MS. Digby 33 - Part 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
3.
, Epistola aurea Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 15th century, beginning
MS. Digby 33 - Part 2
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 13th century, beginning
MS. Digby 33 - Part 3
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 12th century
MS. Digby 33 - Part 4
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Treatise on contemplation
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 13th century
MS. Digby 33 - Part 5
Contents
, Meditations
Rubric: [added later] Meditationes quedam beati Bernardi
Incipit: Fac me delectari in dulcedine tua Domine deus vt des mihi peticiones cordis mei
Explicit: quam preparasti diligentibus te domine Iesu Christe rex glorie. Qui cum patre et cetera.
Final rubric: Expliciunt meditaciones beati Bernardi Clareuallens’
As pr. T. H. Bestul, ‘The Meditationes of Alexander of Ashby: An Edition’, Mediaeval Studies 52 (1990), 24-81 (not this manuscript), ll. 99-1081, i.e. without the initial epistle and prologue, or the concluding oratio and invectiones, found in the other manuscript known to preserve the meditations in full (Oxford, Worcester College, MS. 213).
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
MS. Digby 33 - Part 6
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 12th century
Additional Information
Record Sources
Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts, repr. with addenda by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, 1999) and supplementary sources. Description of part 5 revised by M. Holford, Nov. 2018.
